Quote Originally Posted by Paco View Post
I attribute my listening pleasure to the fact that I simply insist on walking a different line (I utterly refuse to follow trend!!!)!
Even when big badass skis come out, that EVERYBODY loves, I do not touch, because I am not interested in the cults!
Paco, I know what you're saying, but I always have a knee-jerk reaction to statements such as these.

Personally, I'm really bored by people who claim they are "underground" or who insist "they go against the trends." Snooooooze!

Seriously, I know people who are such snobs they refuse to go see certain movies just because the film's budget happened to be more than $10 million. I just think that's stupid.

There is a LOT of popular culture out there that is damn good, and anyone who is so snotty that they won't partake in it just because they think themselves "superior" to it is really just an asshole, in my book. I say get off the high horse and just enjoy what's good, rather than what's part of an "agenda" to be "cool." (NOTE: That's a general statement, not directed at you personally.)

Good entertainment is good entertainment, regardless of how much money was spent on it or regardless of whether or not it happens to end up as a number one single on the radio.

The artists can't help what is done with their music once they record it. But it's still good music.

I just think that people should listen to whatever they want to listen to, regardless of who else is listening to it. Because ultimately, being "different" or "non-conformist" just for the sake of being "different" or "non-conformist" is really just as much of a trend or a movement as being trendy. It's all the same. Just be happy and enjoy what you enjoy, and let everyone else enjoy what they enjoy without being so down on it. No one is "better" than anyone else for liking popular or underground music. We're all just people who like what we like.